Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Linkdump

Create online mini-cities
Your city grows based on the amount of clickthrus
Blogoscopia
Google Blogoscoped mini city
Google Trends as a meme tracker
Shell Fu
Bash one liners
The death and life
of the American Newspaper

Every South Park episode - uncensored, free and legit
SugarCRM 5.1 upcoming features
Was the Death Star attack an inside job?
mysql --i-am-a-dummy

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Linkdump

Best Hate Mail Ever - with Victorian era hate at the end
Django vs ASP.NET MVC
Game Programming with D
Chryp - php blogging engine
WikiLeaks on insider trading at JP Morgan
How to pull off a Rickroll in real life
Deliberate foreclosure
Crash of 1929 timeline
5 hours of cable news = 1 minute of science coverage
Kottke is ten years old
Google Docs clippy easter egg
Retro sabotage - parodies of retro video games
March updates on Google Earth/Maps

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Linkdump

Retro Futuristic Soviet space art
Top ten terrible tech products
Posh CSS
Celebs as Star Wars characters
Sony reveals it's all flash notebook
Rex starts it's list of lists for 2007

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

linkorama

Russia-India joint unmanned moon mission
24 - the unaired 1994 pilot
Smoking Gun uncovers a David Bowie 1976 mugshot
Why suddenly everyone wants to go to the moon
Free Linux ebooks
Skeptics Guide - Logical Fallacies
Katamari Damacy scale model

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Linkdump

Details Revealed - Google OpenSocial
The Web is Agreement (huge map)
Elton John Gold and Diamond iPhone
Open Social - a new universe of social apps
G.ho.st - an online OS
Google Maps Halloween Icon
Google News Gadget
Brijit snippets of articles
Hulu backdoor
Simpsons Video game review
Rotten Neighbor insane Google Maps mashup
Convenience wins , hubris loses, Head of Yahoo Music is sick and tired of DRM
Live365, thousands of online radio stations

Monday, October 15, 2007

Linkdump

Following up on the Mutated Pictures Project
Hive mind
How does it feel to die?
New Scientist article
Vimeo High Def Video
Better quality than YouTube
CNN asks how much you paid for the new Radiohead album
The New Space Race
The Technological Singularity
Amazon could be lost in 40 years
Early Venus had oceans
Scientists lift veil on galactic dust
Family Guy explains Death Star flaw
Microsoft and Facebook deal rumours

Monday, October 08, 2007

Monday Linkdump

EbayBulletin
A blog about all things buying and selling on ebay
Boris Quote of the Day
A different Boris Johnson quote each day.
Crimean War photos
An investigation
Top Ten mega disasters
The Bumper Book of Government Waste
£100 billion squandered

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Linkdump

A Fridge for REAL men
Army mutiny in Burma?
Spacecraft begins voyage to the asteroid belt
A robot riding a bicycle

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Linkorama

Bloxorz (web game)
15 Last FM power tweaks
The world's worst credit card
5000+ resources to do just about anything online
Cap Gemini to pitch Google Apps
ajaxWindows

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Linkdump

Facebook is the new AOL according to Kottke. He has a point.
Fake book covers, to hide the fact that you are reading Harry Potter. (NSFW)
Photos of a 7-11 set up as a Kwik E-Mart to promo the new Simpsons Film. (via Kottke
echochrome gameplay demo - escher like weirdness.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Linkdump

Mandriva - Not our job to pay protection money
Test Drive of PC BSD
Plan 9 running on the Blue Gene supercomputer
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is a gramatically correct sentence.
Star Wars galaxy map
Map of Antarctic lakes and rivers beneath the ice sheet Via here
Physics with two time dimensions
Superconducting turbojet
Cosmic horseshoe - a nearly complete Einstein ring
Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Friday, June 08, 2007

Friday linkdump

Simplicity may be key to robotic self-reproduction
Lastgraph - graphs of last.fm listening habits
Hacking Google street view
Chinese writing may be 8,000 years old
The Art of Wikigroaning
The Armageddon flowchart
Pirate myths

Monday, May 21, 2007

Linkdump

Undiscovered bedrooms of Manhattan
Projected climate map of Europe circa 2071
The last ten seconds of every episode of season one of Star Trek:The Next Generation
Episode 47 of the Linux Action Show is out
U.S. slow broadband speeds
The Motorola Razr 2 runs Linux
Death by Lawyer - 10 cool sites that we miss

Friday, May 11, 2007

Friday linkdump

JahShaka - open source video editing
Photoshopping a big girl into a model
Dumbest creationist quote ever
Time lapse "gravity wave" video taken in Iowa
10 smart lifehacks for Google Reader
Ubuntu Studio released

Friday, April 27, 2007

Friday linkdump


Sumotori Dreams
Hilarious drunken fighting simulator, in only 96k!
TopPop
Dutch 70s Tv program opens its archive.
ACME novelty toy gallery
Giant fossil rain forest discovered in Illinois
Four square miles discovered in coal seam.
DoMyStuff.com
Outsource your life.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Friday linkdump

The Most Hated things on the web
The Mile High Collection
The story behind the greatest comic book collection ever found.
Christopher Walken wants to destroy Silicon Valley
Interview with Twitter developer Alex Payne
He's had problems with scaling Ruby on Rails:
"All the convenience methods and syntactical sugar that makes Rails such a pleasure for coders ends up being absolutely punishing, performance-wise. Once you hit a certain threshold of traffic, either you need to strip out all the costly neat stuff that Rails does for you (RJS, ActiveRecord, ActiveSupport, etc.) or move the slow parts of your application out of Rails, or both."
Fast food adverts versus reality
Beyond the Red Line
Free space game based on Battlestar Galactica
World Geography Quiz
Google Maps mash up

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Linkdump

Austria's 5 star prisons
Why are burglary rates so high in Austria?
Find an old Unix command = $$$ Profit
an interesting observation. Yahoo Pipes = bash. Gmail = pine. Twitter = wall. Google = grep.
Waxy on the explosion of Twitter
nice graphs.

Monday, September 12, 2005

Bad science and the media
Good article on why it happens.
10 stupidest utopias
from Plato to the internet
Neja
Demoscene javascript
Digital camera is 30 years old
On why Kodak buried its invention

Saturday, September 10, 2005

random stuff

Very long list of flash animations
One page, lots and lots of animations.

make your own South Park character
pick from hundreds of different elements.

Friday, September 09, 2005

LinkDump

Fossils reveal flying prehistoric giants (Reuters)
Computer error destroyed 1m UK tax records
DTrace ready to leave Solaris nest for FreeBSD
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released
Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving
BBC Opens TV Archive to Remixers
Using dates in shell scripts (8 Sep 2005)
An Annotated Lynx Keymap (8 Sep 2005)
Upcoming.org adds badges
Katrina conspiracy theories
Kanye West remix,